Obama Admin. Ignored Public Health Experts Seeking Fentanyl Crisis Declaration

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If there was no money or political benefits, the Surrender Monkey was NOT interested....typical DeathRAT response.....FUCK AMERICA!... Not a smidgen of scandal in the Obama administration...ROTFLMFAO!

In 2016, a group of national health experts asked the Obama administration to declare a national public health emergency in response to spiking fentanyl deaths, but were ignored, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids, most prominently fentanyl and its analogues, have skyrocketed since 2013.

In May of 2016, 11 public health experts wrote a private letter to six Obama administration officials—including the heads of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Centers for Disease Control—asking for a public health emergency to be declared so that the federal government could better respond to the surge of overdose deaths.

A few months later, the White House would declare a national health emergency, requesting $1.9 billion to fight the Zika virus.

Two Americans would ultimately die from Zika; more than 19,000 would overdose on fentanyl in the same year.

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